My Final Blog Post!!!

After reading through my 18 blog posts for this entire 2009-10 school year, I have noticed how my literary skills and my vocabulary have improved in this short amount of time. I think that doing so much work on tone, diction, and Word Power have been a big part in this improvement.

My favorite blog post for this year was the Animal Farm project. For this project my group made a movie trailer that shows the main themes portrayed in the book. This blog post was both fun to make, but also was a very useful way to understand the literary elements expressed throughout the book.

The actual blogs that I have posted have both increased in length and detail throughout the year. For example the very first blog I posted, Writing About Reading, I was very vague and just answered the question at surface level, "Why do you read fiction? I read fiction because the storylines or plots are entertaining. It's also cool because you can sometimes relate to the characters in the story." One of the lastest blogs that I have posted, Essay Writing: Challenges and Conquests, is a lot more sophiticated and has a much higher diction than at the beginning of the year, "As almost all people, I do have some shortcomings in my essays. Some of the 'B grade or lower reasons' that I can spend more time to correct is poor transitions. I can also work more on creating a better conclusion paragraph that wraps up the entire essay and makes the reader walk away with an emotional or sentimental outlook on what I addressed."

Another aspect of the blog for this year is how it helped understand the literature that we were reading in class. Most of the blogs were to anaylize some part of the book, play, poem, etc. which again, made you try and find the deeper meaning besides what is on the surface. This deeper understanding of the piece of literature helped me in the discussions, on the tests and quizzes, and an all around better understanding of the assignment as well as comparing a novel of poem to another piece of literature.

Apart from the improvement in my writing skills from my blog, I noticed that this blog has in some was told who I am and some major events that happened in my life. Each persons writing has a voice and you can tell what kind of person the authoe is by their writing. This collection of blog posts tells about the author which makes everyones blog unique and fits their own personality. For example the blog post, Great Excpectations: First Stage, asks you which event in your life formed the person who you are today. This blog post was very emotional to me and it really made me sit and think.

The main point that I am trying to get across to sum up the Honors English blog for this year is that this blog teaches you to be your own person and you learn more about yourself than you knew before. Like Jack Worthing said in The Importance of Being Earnest, “On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”